Inception Report - CDEMA

Appendix 1: Community Disaster Management and Climate Change Initiatives in the English-speaking Caribbean
Activity title
Caribbean Disaster
Management Project
(CADM)
Beneficiary
community(ies) and
country
1. Mesopotamia, St.
Vincent and the
Grenadines
2. San Juan, Trinidad
3. Speightstown,
Barbados
Key components and outputs Implemented by Date of
implementation
1. Assessment of the current status
of Community Disaster
Management
2. Preparation of Community Disaster
Management plans incorporating
hazard maps
3. Preparation of a manual for
Community Disaster Management
planning (flood)
Comments on bestpractice(s)
CDEMA 2002 - 2005 Community
involvement in
developing the tool
they would use to
reduce their
vulnerability to
flooding
Disaster Management
and Mitigation Project
St. Kitts and Nevis
1. Enable the Federal Government
and the NIA to more accurately
assess the impact of natural
disasters on the economy, and
therefore the livelihood of its
citizens, in addition to providing
baseline data and useful
information for future events.
2. Regularize planning processes by
providing standards, regulations
and guidelines.
3. Provide training in a number of
areas, including total impact
assessment (natural hazard,
environmental and economic), and
in planning development and
control.
4. Provide information to the general
public on all selected aspects
relating to physical and economic
planning, and disaster
management.
5. Provide equipment for use in
various training programmes, and
for use in disaster management
situations.
Provide a significantly enhanced
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The OAS
Launched June
2010
No direct community
beneficiaries but a
programme was
developed for
schools